If you have Stellarium 0.10.6 or later version, you can use the "Add/remove landscapes" feature to install landscapes automatically:

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*Open the "Sky and viewing options" window by clicking on the appropriate button in the left button bar (or press the F4 key).

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*The "Add/remove landscapes" button is at the bottom of the "Landscape" tab.

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*When you press it, the "Add/remove landscapes" window will appear. It allows you to install <tt>.zip</tt> files containing landscapes. It also lists the user-installed landscapes and allows you to remove them.

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Note that while this makes installing landscapes easier, it may also cause you to overlook what else is included in the ZIP archive. Landscape packages created without this feature in mind may contain other files, such as alternative textures in different sizes.

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here

We have landscapes for the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all, including from Antarctica !

We have landscapes for the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all, including from Antarctica !

===Interplanetary===

===Interplanetary===

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{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/husband-hill.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip|name=Husband Hill, Mars|author=Johan|license=Public Domain|compat=0.9.x|description=Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].}}

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| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].

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{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip|name=Mars Opportunity Rover|author=Mike|license=Public Domain|compat=0.9.x|description=Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.}}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip|name=International Space Station|author=Makc|license=GPL|compat=0.9.x|description=Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.}}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip|name=Apollo 11 landing site|author=Mathew Myrup|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :)}}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip|name=Apollo 17 landing site|author=Mathew Myrup|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan.}}

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| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.

| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip|name=Idehan Ubari, Libya|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|compat=0.10.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Libya.}}

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| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.

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{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip|name=Sahara, Libya|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|compat=0.10.x|description=This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Libya.}}

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| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].

{{Package|image=http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg|url=http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip|name=Cap Masoala, Madagascar|author=Matthias D. Frei|license=GPLv2+|compat=0.9.x|description=This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]}}

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| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.

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{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip|name=Mbabane, Swaziland|author=Quinton Reissmann|compat=0.9.x|description=Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.}}

| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]

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| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip|name=Jantar Mantar|author=Barry Perlus & Stellarium team|license=CC BY-NC-SA 3.0|compat=0.9.x|description=Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].}}

| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/beaumont-hills.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip|name=Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia|author=Barry Gerdes|license=GPLv2+|compat=0.9.x|description=Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide].}}

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| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip|name=Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia|author=Clive Nelson|compat=0.9.x|description=Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.}}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_largsbay_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_largsbay.zip|name=Largs Bay in South Australia|author=Martin Lewicki|license=GPL|compat=0.9.x|description=Panoramic view of Largs Bay in South Australia 8 panel old style landscape. Largs Pier Hotel facade in SSE and Largs Bay Sailing Club due east. Jetty extends to Gulf St Vincent to the west.}}

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| '''Clive Nelson - Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia'''. Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.

{{Package|image=http://michael.nadev.net/pub/wurania.png|url=http://michael.nadev.net/pub/wurania.zip|name=Urania Observatory, Vienna, Austria|author=Michael Prokosch|license=CC BY-ND 3.0|compat=0.9.x|description=The [http://www.astronomie-wien.at/astronomie_urania.html Urania Observatory] (48°12′41.88″N 16°23′1.53″E) is located right in the middle of the city of Vienna, capital of Austria. Built in 1910 under emporer Franz Joseph I. it's the countries oldest non-scientifical observatory still in use for people's education. This landscape was taken in August 2011. If you are not distracted by the stars, you can even see St. Stephan's cathedral, the Viennese Giant Wheel and the Danube Canal. File size is about 11.5 MB.}}

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{{Package|image=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Thumbnail.png|url=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/laguardia.zip|name=Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta]|license=CC BY-NC-ND 3.0|compat=0.10.x|description=La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008. '''[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz KMZ file]'''. }}

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{{Package|image=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Thumbnail.png|url=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/castrolaboreiro.zip|name=Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta]|license=CC BY-NC-ND 3.0|compat=0.10.x|description=Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010. '''[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file]'''. }}

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{{Package|image=http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/thumbnail.png|url=http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/lascanadas.zip|name=Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain|author=[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez]|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill.

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'''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image]. }}

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{{Package|image=http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png|url=http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip|name=Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland|author=Christian Waldvogel|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096). }}

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{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/San_Pietro.jpg|url=http://www.stellarium.org/files/landscapes/San_Pietro.zip|name=St Peter's Square (Vatican)|author=Gianfranco Mazzani|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=This is a complete high resolution panoramic view of the St Peter's Square, City of Vatican.

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Gianfranco Mazzani photographed this panorama in july 2004 by using a Nikon Coolpix 8700, and stitched

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the original 10 pictures together into a spherical panorama using Hugin program. The panorama has been

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the height to 32 cm by using Photoschop elements 2.

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{{Package|image=http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano_tmb.png|url=http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano.zip|name=Frantoio Rodiano, Italy|author=Christian Waldvogel|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096). }}

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{{Package|image=http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg|url=http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip|name=Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain|author=Uwe Buecher|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter). }}

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{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip|name=English Garden, Munich, Germany|author=Rob Spearman, Johan Meuris|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. }}

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{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip|name=English Garden, Munich, Germany|author=Rob Spearman, Johan Meuris|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg|url=http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip|name=Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland|author=[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. (2MB) }}

| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.

| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file]'''. Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.

| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].

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| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).

| '''Christian Waldvogel - Frantoio Rodiano, Italy'''. The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).

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| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]

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| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]

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| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]

| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. (2MB)

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| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier. (2.2MB)

| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier. (2.2MB)

| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.

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| '''Uvalno - Czech Republic'''. A view from a garden in the village of Uvalno, Czech Republic.

| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.

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| '''Šentvid, Ljubljana, Slovenia'''. View from the roof of the observatory of Gymnasium Šentvid, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].

| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.

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| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.

| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].

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| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file]'''. Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.

| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)

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| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].

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| '''Cliff Nieuwenhuis - Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA'''. This landscape was made with photos taken from my yard in Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA. Construction details are on my [http://www.nieusite.com/landscape.html website].

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| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).

| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].

| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.

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| '''Christian Waldvogel - Frantoio Rodiano, Italy'''. The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).

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| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.

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| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]

| '''[http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/ Malte Tewes] - Swiss Euler Telescope, [http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla.html ESO La Silla Observatory], Chile'''. Euler is the nearby telescope that can be seen in the west. It is operated by the University of Geneva, and its main duty is the quest of extrasolar planets. The New Technology Telescope (NTT) shows up just behind Euler's control room, Tarot is in due south, and finally the venerable ESO 3.6 meter telescope sits on its hill in the southeast. The panorama was taken on September 3, 2010, at about 7:25 local time, a wonderful sunrise after a snowy night. [http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/stellarium_landscapes/ Screenshots]

| '''[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira]''' photographed this panorama in the Brazilian city of Divinópolis in March 2011 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium.

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How to install landscapes

After you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.

Automatic

If you have Stellarium 0.10.6 or later version, you can use the "Add/remove landscapes" feature to install landscapes automatically:

Open the "Sky and viewing options" window by clicking on the appropriate button in the left button bar (or press the F4 key).

The "Add/remove landscapes" button is at the bottom of the "Landscape" tab.

When you press it, the "Add/remove landscapes" window will appear. It allows you to install .zip files containing landscapes. It also lists the user-installed landscapes and allows you to remove them.

Note that while this makes installing landscapes easier, it may also cause you to overlook what else is included in the ZIP archive. Landscape packages created without this feature in mind may contain other files, such as alternative textures in different sizes.

Manual

If you are using an earlier version of Stellarium, you can follow this procedure to install a landscape package:

Create a sub-directory called landscapes in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).

Unzip the landscape .zip file in the landscapes directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes here.

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here

User contributed landscapes (by continent)

Interplanetary

Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on this webpage.

Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful Celestia. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.

This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found here

Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.

Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see jantarmantar.org.

Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.

Europe

The Urania Observatory (48°12′41.88″N 16°23′1.53″E) is located right in the middle of the city of Vienna, capital of Austria. Built in 1910 under emporer Franz Joseph I. it's the countries oldest non-scientifical observatory still in use for people's education. This landscape was taken in August 2011. If you are not distracted by the stars, you can even see St. Stephan's cathedral, the Viennese Giant Wheel and the Danube Canal. File size is about 11.5 MB.

This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill.

Note: If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with this 50% scaled image.

Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).

This is a complete high resolution panoramic view of the St Peter's Square, City of Vatican.

Gianfranco Mazzani photographed this panorama in july 2004 by using a Nikon Coolpix 8700, and stitched
the original 10 pictures together into a spherical panorama using Hugin program. The panorama has been
than cutted into 8 alfa channel pictures and re-dimensioned the width to 2048 pixel and then dimensioned
the height to 32 cm by using Photoschop elements 2.

The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).

This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter).

The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer.

Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. (2MB)

Grahame Gardner - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group www.geomancygroup.org. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier. (2.2MB)

Grahame Gardner - Calanais I (Callanish) Avenue, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland. Callanish is arguably the finest megalithic monument in the British Isles, and is just the largest site in a vast complex of interconnected monuments designed to observe the southern major standstills of the moon. From this position at the end of the avenue, the moon is seen to set behind the rocky outcrop of Cnoc-an-Tursa, only to 're-gleam' in the centre of the main circle a short time afterwards. (4MB)

Grahame Gardner - Machrie Moor 5, Isle of Arran, Scotland. This delightful little double-concentric stone circle is the first site you come to when visiting the Machrie Moor complex of megalithic sites on Arran. Although not the most spectactular site in the group, it is one of the most complete and has good views. (7.3MB)

Ian Pegler - Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, North Wales. This ruined Cistercian abbey dates to 1200 but may be the site of a much earlier Dark Age settlement with a very early Christian church. (2.5MB)

Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.

Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from T60 Association, installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.

Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).

Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, Jan Wedekind, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0

Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo - Ares, Galicia, Spain. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..

Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz - St Peter's Square, Vatican. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of UNESCO World Heritage.

Angel Juan Martínez - Cocentaina, Spain. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.

Sveinn í Felli - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)

Hugo Jenks - Woodhenge near Stonehenge, was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.

The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. Download

Hugo Jenks - Stonehenge. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: www.brontovox.co.uk These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. Download

Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of UNESCO World Heritage.

Markus Dähne - Central Munich. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)

Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a hiking tour from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.

Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal Kmz file. Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.

José Ángel Estévez - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. DownloadNote: If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with this 50% scaled image.

Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).

Christian Waldvogel - Frantoio Rodiano, Italy. The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).

Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) Download

Rob Spearman

North America

This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.

This landscape was taken to help encourage students to learn about science and astronomy using Stellarium. The panorama was taken at the playground area of Chesterton Elementary School on October 23, 2011. The image was constructed using the Multiple Image Method using 8 overlapping images to provide a high level of detail. The original composite panorama image was 22442 (width) x 2418 (height) pixels . Composite photo reduced to 5 equally sized photos of 2048 by 1024 pixels. Many trees created complex horizon background but left details, such as tether-ball poles, in place during transparency development to keep landscape realistic. The lines of the playground provide an interesting perspective with Stellarium.

Pyramid Island dark sky observation site in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada - world's largest Dark Sky Preserve. This site is only 15 min from the town of Jasper, yet nearly perfectly dark. The panorama was taken just before sunset in October 2011.

South America

The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the ESO.

Euler is the nearby telescope that can be seen in the west. It is operated by the University of Geneva, and its main duty is the quest of extrasolar planets. The New Technology Telescope (NTT) shows up just behind Euler's control room, Tarot is in due south, and finally the venerable ESO 3.6 meter telescope sits on its hill in the southeast. The panorama was taken on September 3, 2010, at about 7:25 local time, a wonderful sunrise after a snowy night. Screenshots

Polar regions

Contributions

Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the Stellarium User Guide, and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

Important note on image dimensions

IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

Package contents

Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

Licensing

Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
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Description
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This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.
Files
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This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:
mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png
Installation & Use
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Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.
Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.
Credits
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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html
License
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NASA Images are released into the public domain

File encoding

The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

Need hosting?

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email me and I'll put it on my site.